2. About me
• MFL teacher at Ian Ramsey School in Stockton
• Love creativity and anything that helps
promote it
• Don’t work for Storybird
• @wizenedcrone on Twitter
• Have a Storybird wikispace:
http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com/
14. For teachers and learners
• Teachers can write stories to teach new
material or present topics and themes in an
alternative way
• Pupils can write stories to explore ideas,
practise skills, present reports, write creatively
or use new language
39. Why use stories in the classroom?
• Good model of sustained language. Pupils
have to listen and concentrate.
• Offers opportunities to listen, imagine,
predict, comment, participate, express
opinions, access longer texts without
necessarily having to understand every word.
• Involve younger children in the story from the
start with actions and gestures
With thanks to Clare Seccombe http://changing-phase.blogspot.com/
40. • Make a model of one of the characters
• Write a description of one of the characters
• Pupils write their own stories inspired by the
original
• Match words and pictures from the story
• Listen and draw
• Sequencing
• Drama
• Mini books
Follow-up activities
With thanks to Clare Seccombe http://changing-phase.blogspot.com/
41. Who could use Storybird?
• In Primary there are many opportunities from
Reception to KS2
• At Secondary level, several subject areas:
– English and drama
– History
– Science
– RE
– PHSE
– Modern Languages
– … and your area?
42. How does it work ?
Open a free account and
this is how your home
page looks
49. Features for teachers
• Student management with no email addresses
to log in
• Embeddable (if written in English)
• Discussions
• Class libraries
• Moderated comments
• Spell check...
51. Coming in next weeks …
• gift cards
• teacher fundraising codes
• Challenges (new writing contest for USA
residents over 18 – coming to UK later)
52. Developments for early 2011
• voice recording (I am sooo excited about this!)
• iPad v1 (Read)
• Personal uploads
• Sharable reading lists
• new profile pages
• new Read page
• updated Create page